The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-30
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Hero and There by the
News Reporters.


Thomas Fogarty was released from Jail
yesterday on 50 900 bail.
The case of Myrick VS. Heard was con
tinued before Judge Speer yesterday.
The Catholic Library Association will
hold its annual meeting tomorrow noon at
Catholic Library Hall
A sealed verdict was rendered in the Supe-
rior Court yesterday in the case of w. I.
Burch VS.. W. j. O'Brien.
Judge Adams yesterday sentenced Isaac
Wesley (coloredl, convicted of rape, to one
year in the penitentiary. Wesley was
recommended to the extreme mercy of the
court.
A lamp globe blew off of the electric light
tower in Court House square yesterday.
After falling 100 feet or so it struck the roof
of Davis Bros. store and caused mo-
mentary alarm among the clerks.
The Savannah Port Society has deter
mined to dispose of the Seamen's Bethel at
Congress and Montgomery streets and it
will be sold at auction at the court house
next Tuesday The furniture will be sold
on Wednesday at the Bethel.
Edward Whelan (coloredl is in a critical
condition from knife wound inflicted in
his back Wednesday night by Willis Stuart,
also colored. Whelan was stabbed in two
places. Dr. Parsons who attended him,
found that one of the wounds penetrated
the right lung, and air escaped through the
wound at every breath.
Fire broke out at o'clock yesterday af
ternoon under the eastern wharf of the
Ocean Steamship Company, and some dam
age was done to the wharf and lumber.
! The flames were put out by the tug Repub-
lic Mr.. John Hardin, one of the clerks on
the wharf, was painfully injured while as
| sisting in putting out the fire.
la ~ de poft Ii1,,
has had 900 copies of DR.. Bacon's sermon
entitled Bearing the Sword as Gods Minis
! ter" published in pamphlet form. The SER
mon attracted so much attention when
preached that by request it was repeated.
| Its general distribution would increase
public interest in volunteer military COM
nlands in this and other States.
The ladies of st. Johns church gave
very pleasant entertainment at Masonic
: Hall yesterday afternoon and last night.
| Ice cream, strawberries and cake were
among the delicacies served in the way OF
| refreshments. Dancing was the order of the
evening. The proceeds of the entertainment
| and of the sale OF refreshments between 10
and 12 o'clock this morning will go toward
completing the Improvement of the church.
The announcement in the MORNING NEWS
Of yesterday of the purchase by a syndicate
| of Savannah capitalists of the unsold Dor
stir in regard to .Savannah's seaside
resort. Capt. D. G. Purse, from whom
the property was bought a member of the
syndicate, as is also Mr.. Lawrence Lippman.
Both gentlemen are interested in the devel-
opment of the island. Capt. Purse says that
everything will be in shape in a day or two
TO organize the stock company, and then the
work Of improving the property will be
gone ahead with at once.
Tho scbnopor mia g Conapt at
tached yesterday by the owners of the
schooner Uno for 800 damages and s. a day
demurrage caused by collision with the
Conant on Thursday. The attachment was
issued by Justice Molina at the instance of
George C. Collins, and was served by Con
stable Endressr just as the vessel was ready to
go to sea. The owner of the Uno is repre-
sented by NJ J. 0Connor, Esq. The at
tachment proceedings viii be dismissed to-
day, and the case will be transferred to the
United States District Court by the issue of
a libel which will be served this morning